The Camp Verde Library is one of only six libraries across the United States that will be exhibiting a display from NASA.
Discover NASA: From Our Town to Outer Space will be traveling between the selected libraries between January 2016 and October 2017.
“We’re the only library in the state that’s getting the exhibit,” said Kathy Hellman, Camp Verde Library director. “It was very competitive.”
The exhibit looks at what the space agency does today and what it plans to do in the future.
While that takes funding, the future will also take imagination, something NASA hopes to inspire and foster in younger people who get the opportunity look into its workings.
The opportunity to host the exhibit is funded through a grant from NASA.
“From Our Town to Outer Space will inform, engage and inspire new public audiences by sharing NASA’s missions, challenges and achievements,” according to NASA’s project overview. “[The program] is led by the Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive Learning. NASA mission staff will be invited to participate as active members. [The program] is a standards-based, informal education program that will reach a broad audience of librarians, library patrons and other members of the public with a special focus on underserved and underrepresented audiences.”
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Sept. 23, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
